VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 484 558
Rank change year-on-year -23 +74 +158
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 77 60 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.62% 0.59% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 29 28
10th Percentile £413 £472 £317
25th Percentile £470 £505 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £560 £494
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +13.42% +3.95%
75th Percentile £612 £630 £588
90th Percentile £650 £715 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £560 £488
% change year-on-year +1.62% +14.87% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.38 - -
90th Percentile £96.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,411 10,172 13,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 29.75% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,063 6,239 8,279
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,013 485 733
10th Percentile £16.35 £19.72 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £52.31 £66.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.59 £51.90
% change year-on-year -44.83% -12.16% +16.11%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -25 63 £575 +2.68% 26
UK excluding London -42 35 £569 +1.62% 23
London -3 25 £575 +2.22% 8
Work from Home +6 24 £530 -8.62% 14
South East -33 17 £606 +7.30% 8
North of England -43 7 £465 -7.08% 10
North West - 7 £465 - 6
South West -19 6 £630 +5.00% 3
Midlands - 3 £475 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 2
East of England -22 1 £563 +151.68% 1
Scotland - 1 £225 -
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.08%) Azure
2 6 (7.79%) AWS
3 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (3.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (3.90%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.60%) IaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.30%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.30%) PaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Route 53
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
6 1 (1.30%) Serverless
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) VSAN
2 9 (11.69%) DHCP
2 9 (11.69%) DNS
2 9 (11.69%) Firewall
3 6 (7.79%) iSCSI
3 6 (7.79%) Software-Defined Networking
3 6 (7.79%) VPN
4 5 (6.49%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (5.19%) PCoIP
5 4 (5.19%) WAN
6 3 (3.90%) SAN
6 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.60%) Network Security
7 2 (2.60%) VLAN
7 2 (2.60%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.30%) DMVPN
8 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (1.30%) NAS
8 1 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.90%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Finance
5 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Electronics
6 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.60%) Marketing
6 2 (2.60%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Advertising
7 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.30%) French Language
Job Titles
1 24 (31.17%) Consultant
2 21 (27.27%) VMware Consultant
3 16 (20.78%) VMware Engineer
4 14 (18.18%) Architect
5 9 (11.69%) VMware Specialist
6 7 (9.09%) VMware Architect
7 6 (7.79%) Azure Consultant
7 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) PowerShell Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Principal Consultant
7 6 (7.79%) Senior
8 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (5.19%) Wintel Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Azure Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Hyper-V Consultant
10 3 (3.90%) PowerShell Consultant
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.60%) Data Centre Consultant
11 2 (2.60%) Exchange Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Data Centre
1 10 (12.99%) Replication
2 7 (9.09%) PKI
3 6 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.19%) Clustering
5 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (1.30%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.97%) Windows
2 16 (20.78%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.09%) Linux
4 5 (6.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.30%) SUSE
6 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (15.58%) Migration
3 8 (10.39%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (9.09%) Agile
4 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (7.79%) ITIL
5 6 (7.79%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (7.79%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (7.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (6.49%) Critical Thinking
6 5 (6.49%) High Availability
6 5 (6.49%) Performance Analysis
7 4 (5.19%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (5.19%) Containerisation
7 4 (5.19%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (5.19%) Edge Virtualization
7 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (5.19%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 39 (50.65%) Python
3 28 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.99%) SQL
5 3 (3.90%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (68.83%) Security Cleared
2 40 (51.95%) SC Cleared
3 18 (23.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (20.78%) VCAP
5 14 (18.18%) MCSE
6 9 (11.69%) MCSA
7 6 (7.79%) CCNP
7 6 (7.79%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared
8 5 (6.49%) Azure Certification
8 5 (6.49%) VCP5
8 5 (6.49%) VCP6
9 4 (5.19%) AWS Certification
10 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Degree
10 3 (3.90%) OCA
10 3 (3.90%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (3.90%) VCDX
11 2 (2.60%) CCNA
11 2 (2.60%) HP ASE
System Software
1 43 (55.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (42.86%) vSphere
3 18 (23.38%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (19.48%) VMware NSX
5 13 (16.88%) Active Directory
6 9 (11.69%) Hyper-V
7 8 (10.39%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (6.49%) NFS
9 4 (5.19%) Docker
10 2 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (1.30%) Firmware
11 1 (1.30%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 31 (40.26%) vRealize
2 15 (19.48%) Ansible
3 13 (16.88%) vCenter Server
4 9 (11.69%) Terraform
5 5 (6.49%) PowerCLI
6 4 (5.19%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
7 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.60%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.60%) vMotion
9 1 (1.30%) SCOM
9 1 (1.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 77 (100.00%) VMware
2 27 (35.06%) Microsoft
3 10 (12.99%) Veeam
4 7 (9.09%) Cisco
5 6 (7.79%) NetApp
6 5 (6.49%) Splunk
7 4 (5.19%) Dell
8 3 (3.90%) Atlassian
8 3 (3.90%) Oracle
8 3 (3.90%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.60%) 3PAR
9 2 (2.60%) Citrix
9 2 (2.60%) F5
9 2 (2.60%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.60%) Juniper
9 2 (2.60%) Nimble Storage
9 2 (2.60%) ProCurve
9 2 (2.60%) SAP
10 1 (1.30%) Avaya
10 1 (1.30%) Ericsson